• LEFT

1. participle adjective, reliquus.

2. adj., sinister (on or from the left side, ἀριστερός); laevus (opposed to right; hence also = awkward, unskilful, the Greek λαιός; in the prose of the golden period more rare than sinister): ☞ scaevus (σκαιός) in its proper signification, left, is obsolete. The left hand, sinistra maims; laeva manus; or simply, sinistra (opposed to dextra): to the left, ad sinistram; ad laevam; sinistrorsus; sinistrorsum (toward the left side); a sinistra parte; a sinistra; sinistra; laeva: (on the left side).